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Two Graves · For The Fallen Dreams

EXERCISE 16 OF 63
Groove H -- Part H (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART B
PART V
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART S10
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesNBACVAH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Two Graves on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-22, toms through bars 23-25, snare through bars 26-30, toms through bars 31-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-40, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-30, 61-65 and 97-101 -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26                               27
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x---xxxxx---x-------x-x-x-x-x---|x---x-x---x-x---------x-----x---|
Two Graves -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 12, 15, 16, 20, 22, 23 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-73 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Two Graves?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Two Graves hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Two Graves?

17 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 12, 15, 16, 20, 22, 23 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED